And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;
WEB
Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
YLT
And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood,
DBT
And they took Joseph's vest, and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the vest in the blood;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)